RefWorks

ProQuest RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

Key Features
  • Access from any internet-connected computer or web-enabled mobile phone
  • Easily add, organize and manage your research
  • Format bibliographies and manuscripts from hundreds of output styles including APA, MLA, Chicago and more
  • Import references quickly and easily from a variety of online databases
  • Insert citations while writing via RefWorks Citation Manager
  • Attach files in a variety of formats to your references
  • Share references with others
Access

All students, academic or administrative staff from MPU may sign up an individual account by clicking the "Create account" link below the login form. Please noted that your MPU email address is required for the registration.

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If you are a Legacy RefWorks user, we recommend transitioning to the latest version of RefWorks. You can create a New RefWorks account and migrate your references into it, please click here for upgrade instructions and further information.

User Guides and Tutorials
Mendeley

Mendeley

Mendeley is a freely available reference manager and academic social network with web-based, desktop, and mobile versions. With the Mendeley Reference Manager, you can easily organize and search your personal library, annotate documents and cite as you write.

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Zotero

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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Scopus

Scopus

Scopus is a multi-disciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the content of over 19,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers, 46 million abstracts, 500million quality web pages, and 21 million patent records. Subject coverage includes life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences. The database also provides references cited for articles published after 1996.

List of Active Journal Titles from Cross-Strait and Hong Kong included in Scopus (Internal Access Only)

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Web of Science Core Collection

Web of Science Core Collection

Web of Science Core Collection is the world's most trusted citation index for scientific and scholarly research. It is a curated collection of over 20,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals) in over 250 science, social sciences, and humanities disciplines.

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Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)

Web of Science Core Collection: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)

Conference Proceedings Citation Index database (former name ISI Proceedings) is part of the Web of Science, it helps researchers access the published literature from significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource lets you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Web of Science: InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

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Ei Compendex & Inspec on Engineering Village

Ei Compendex & Inspec on Engineering Village

Ei Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world with over 20 million indexed records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Every record is carefully selected and indexed using the Engineering Index Thesaurus so engineers can be confident information is relevant, complete, accurate and of high quality.

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SciVal

SciVal

SciVal is a research analytics system that uses data from Scopus and Science Direct to give researchers access to the bibliometric research performance of their own research, research institutions and individual researchers worldwide. SciVal enables researchers and admin to visualise research performance, benchmark using a number of metrics and develop collaborative partnerships. SciVal can be used to:

  • Understand the performance of research outputs for a group
  • Gather information and analysis to support funding bids and PBRF
  • Analyse research strengths and trends and to benchmark against other research groups, universities etc
  • Gather information about current partnerships and potential partners

See also the SciVal info site at http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scival

**Please note: All users will need to login with a personal username and password. You can create a SciVal login by following the link to Register Now. If you have a personal username and password for another Elsevier product, such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, ClinicalKey or Mendeley, the same login details will work here in SciVal.

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ORCID

ORCID

ORCID is part of the wider digital infrastructure needed for researchers to share information on a global scale. We enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations by providing an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.

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Publons

Publons

Publons allows researchers to track, verify and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals. Publons provides verified credit for peer review without compromising your anonymity or violating journal policies.

Publons have partnered with ORCID so that you can export your verified review history from Publons to your ORCID profile. Linking your Publons account to your ORCID profile is essential if you are an active peer reviewer.

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Google Scholar

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Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that searches a wide variety of academic sources including academic books, journal articles, theses and conference papers. When connecting Google Scholar with the Library access, FullText@MPU links will appear to the right of your search results when a document can be accessed via Macao Polytechnic University Library subscriptions.

Search Google Scholar@MPU

Access Google Scholar with the above link will automatically connect you with the Library access. Having problems with connecting your access? Simply set up your Google Scholar as follows:

  1. Go to Google Scholar
  2. Click on Settings from the side menu
  3. Find "mpu" from the Library Links
  4. Checked the result "澳門理工大學 Macao Polytechnic University - FullText@MPU"
  5. Save your settings.

Please note that NOT all the articles found in Google Scholar will be available through Library access. You should use Primo Discovery Service for more comprehensive coverage of library resources.

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a Chrome browser extension powered by BrowZine. It detects available scholarly content, notifies the user of the availability of Library subscriptions, and connects them to the full text content in one-click.

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LibKey Nomad user guide

EndNote Click

EndNote Click

EndNote Click (formerly Kopernio) is a free, easy-to-use browser plugin that helps you save time accessing full-text journal articles by bringing the Library subscriptions as well as open access content into your workflow at your point of need. This extension is integrated with over 20,000 academic websites including Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar.

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Getting Started with EndNote Click

Innography: PatentScout

PatentScout

Innography's PatentScout™ delivers critical patent data from a private, web-based platform. Access patent data where needed in your organization, without the loss of privacy and search logging associated with free patent search tools.

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All users are required to REGISTER an account. Click the red button "CPA SSO" to register with your MPI email address. Please contact LIBRARY for accessing Innography IP analytics platform.

IEEE Standards Online Collections

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

IEEE Standards, brought to you via the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, are used around the world to help industries and companies open business opportunities, maximize research efforts, generate public and customer trust, build order in the marketplace, and enhance safety.

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Turnitin

Turnitin

Turnitin is an online anti-plagiarism service available for MPU's teachers. Turnitin checks uploaded articles/texts against a database of web documents and other uploaded texts. It also stores all submissions and compares new submissions with previous ones. Please refer to the IT Department website for details and application.

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